Over the years I have had a number of ideas I thought were good enough to do. Some of these have been story ideas, some project ideas, and of course my Body on Games idea. One of the more recent ideas I had, which actually came out of The Body on Games, was to start capturing my review playthroughs when I can. Thus far I have done with for Agony (on the TBOG YouTube channel), F1 2018, Star Control: Origins, and am working on Assassin's Creed Origins. (Yeah, AC Origins launched a year ago so I don't mind sharing I'm working on a review for it.) Well today I saw there was a comment for the last part of the Star Control: Origins playthrough, and the person said they not only did watch them all, but will also be picking up the game.
I was definitely surprised that someone watched the playthrough, but then I looked to the channel's stats and was shocked. It looks like this is all owed to Star Control: Origins, but the views for the past four weeks are is at 2514 with 58,751 minutes of watch time... The videos only went public on September 20 though, so that is from just 10 days...
How?! How has this happened? Yes, I'm questioning how I have achieved this measure of success because, very seriously, I have not had such success for years. The closest would have been about six years ago when my book, Sci-FU, reached #1 in Technothrillers on Amazon over just five days. It was free for those five days though, so like this, I am not going to monetarily benefit from it. (None of my YouTube channels qualify for monetization, and even if this one, GuestJimOCC, were to now, I don't think I will hit the button on it. Maybe I would set up something else, but I don't want to put ads on these videos.)
On the bright side, this does appear to be validation for my idea of capturing and sharing my review playthroughs. Hopefully it will happen again, but I will likely not be surprised if it does not. Like I said, success and I tend not to meet, so this being a one-time fluke would fit with how the world treats me. If it is not a fluke though, then hopefully I can continue producing this content, but we'll see. I do have other projects and responsibilities.
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Work and a Random Idea
Just when you think you may be able to have a break to get other work down, some more arrives.
Anyway, had an idea for a movie and I wish there were some way to suggest it and maybe see it happen. The idea is something like a remake of Silent Movie, but instead of the goal being to make a silent movie, instead it is to make a movie with all of the old actors and actresses so many people think are dead. The best way to do it though would be to have Mel Brooks involved, as Silent Movie is one of his, and you have also have some fun with the title too: Mel Brooks Presents He's Still Alive.
Anyway, had an idea for a movie and I wish there were some way to suggest it and maybe see it happen. The idea is something like a remake of Silent Movie, but instead of the goal being to make a silent movie, instead it is to make a movie with all of the old actors and actresses so many people think are dead. The best way to do it though would be to have Mel Brooks involved, as Silent Movie is one of his, and you have also have some fun with the title too: Mel Brooks Presents He's Still Alive.
Monday, September 10, 2018
It's Good to Be Busy
So I went from having things to do and the time to do them to having More things to do and less time to do them. Hence why I failed to post something last week, and I even had an idea of something to share! Still remember it too, but I want to cover a couple other things too.
Okay, so that first idea was to call out the stupidity of the FCKDRM.com stunt by GOG. It's not only stupid, it's juvenile and ignorant. There is a very one-sided view of DRM, and by 'very one-sided' I mean extreme-level bias that exclusively equates DRM with evil and greed. This ignores the fact that DRM is used by many, including GOG, to protect your digital rights. A password-protected account is, guess what, an example of DRM. What does this give you at GOG? The ability to store information to make purchases, the ability to claim your purchases after the fact without needing the original email associated with a purchase, and likely more. Two-factor authentication, that's DRM protecting your rights, and is even encouraged if you have a GOG account (which is DRM). Look, here's the truth the anti-DRM zealots want you to forget; DRM is not about protecting someone's ability to squeeze money out of you and remove your access to products. It is about protecting someone's rights, both creators and consumers. It protects a creator's rights to receive compensation for their work and it protects the consumers' rights to claim that work after compensating the creator. Without DRM, creators might not be paid because someone else could claim to be the creator and take the money. No DRM, no way to prevent someone else from claiming any digital products or services someone produces. Without DRM, a consumer making a purchase might be able to make it with the payment credentials of a different consumer, because those digital rights are not protected. Also, without DRM (and even with) it is possible for a consumer to defraud a creator by requesting a refund on a digital product they have made a copy of, that cannot be identified or removed. DRM does not assume people are dishonest or that they will commit a dishonest act, but it does protect others from bad-faith actors. They are like rules or laws; most people will never break them, or at least not severely, and keeping the rules and laws likely will not degrade their lives either. But, when someone does break those rules or laws, harming another, we are grateful for them and those who execute them.
Okay, the other two points are both more political than the above, and concern the rather stupid comments of Senator Cory Booker. I decided to turn on the committee hearings for a bit and caught some of his opening statement and, well, I don't think he knows what a resume is. He was equating not receiving tens of thousands of documents (compared to hundreds of thousands that have been made available, as I understand) and approving Judge Kavanaugh to only reading 10% of a resume before hiring someone... Uh, a resume should be about two pages, sometimes three, so not even thousands of words, let alone pages. A resume is also like a hit-list, so not even a summary of your relevant work experience, while possessing all of those documents would equate to having a super-biography, as they would include details no one cares about and are likely unimportant to most anything. Finally, while you might not hire someone when only reading 10% of a resume, I have been rejected based on less than that. Guess what, decisions are made on less than what is 'fair.'
Finally, 'I am Spartacus' is not about breaking the rules. It is about claiming responsibility for something you are not responsible for, to obscure the one actually responsible and/or to accept the punishment; a sign of solidarity. If you're going to use a reference, at least be accurate and appropriate with its use.
Okay, so that first idea was to call out the stupidity of the FCKDRM.com stunt by GOG. It's not only stupid, it's juvenile and ignorant. There is a very one-sided view of DRM, and by 'very one-sided' I mean extreme-level bias that exclusively equates DRM with evil and greed. This ignores the fact that DRM is used by many, including GOG, to protect your digital rights. A password-protected account is, guess what, an example of DRM. What does this give you at GOG? The ability to store information to make purchases, the ability to claim your purchases after the fact without needing the original email associated with a purchase, and likely more. Two-factor authentication, that's DRM protecting your rights, and is even encouraged if you have a GOG account (which is DRM). Look, here's the truth the anti-DRM zealots want you to forget; DRM is not about protecting someone's ability to squeeze money out of you and remove your access to products. It is about protecting someone's rights, both creators and consumers. It protects a creator's rights to receive compensation for their work and it protects the consumers' rights to claim that work after compensating the creator. Without DRM, creators might not be paid because someone else could claim to be the creator and take the money. No DRM, no way to prevent someone else from claiming any digital products or services someone produces. Without DRM, a consumer making a purchase might be able to make it with the payment credentials of a different consumer, because those digital rights are not protected. Also, without DRM (and even with) it is possible for a consumer to defraud a creator by requesting a refund on a digital product they have made a copy of, that cannot be identified or removed. DRM does not assume people are dishonest or that they will commit a dishonest act, but it does protect others from bad-faith actors. They are like rules or laws; most people will never break them, or at least not severely, and keeping the rules and laws likely will not degrade their lives either. But, when someone does break those rules or laws, harming another, we are grateful for them and those who execute them.
Okay, the other two points are both more political than the above, and concern the rather stupid comments of Senator Cory Booker. I decided to turn on the committee hearings for a bit and caught some of his opening statement and, well, I don't think he knows what a resume is. He was equating not receiving tens of thousands of documents (compared to hundreds of thousands that have been made available, as I understand) and approving Judge Kavanaugh to only reading 10% of a resume before hiring someone... Uh, a resume should be about two pages, sometimes three, so not even thousands of words, let alone pages. A resume is also like a hit-list, so not even a summary of your relevant work experience, while possessing all of those documents would equate to having a super-biography, as they would include details no one cares about and are likely unimportant to most anything. Finally, while you might not hire someone when only reading 10% of a resume, I have been rejected based on less than that. Guess what, decisions are made on less than what is 'fair.'
Finally, 'I am Spartacus' is not about breaking the rules. It is about claiming responsibility for something you are not responsible for, to obscure the one actually responsible and/or to accept the punishment; a sign of solidarity. If you're going to use a reference, at least be accurate and appropriate with its use.
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